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245 00 $aPhilosophy and Terry Pratchett /$c[edited by] Jacob Held, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of Central Arkansas, USA ; James South, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Marquette University, USA.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2014.
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520 $a"Sir Terry Pratchett, who has sold more than 85 million copies of his books worldwide, is read and respected by people with a wide range of interests. This book, the first to explicitly address philosophical themes in his work, will appeal to fans of Pratchett, to philosophers interested in popular culture, and to anyone interested in the relation between fiction and philosophy. Covering topics in metaphysics, logic, epistemology, ethics, and social and political philosophy, the thirteen contributors to this volume illuminate the philosophical significance of Pratchett's work in a sophisticated way, but written so that anyone who reads Pratchett will find something thought-provoking"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $aIncludes indexes.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction; James B. South -- PART I: SELF-PERCEPTION, NARRATIVE, AND IDENTITY -- 1. A Golem is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Woman: Gender on the Disc; Jacob M. Held -- 2. 'Nothing Like a Bit of Destiny to Get the Old Plot Rolling:' A Philosophical Reading of Wyrd Sisters; James B. South -- 3. 'Feigning to Feign:' Pratchett and the Maskerade; Andrew Rayment -- 4. 'Knowing things that other people don't know is a form of magic:' Lessons in Headology and Critical Thinking from The Lancre Witch; Tuomas W. Manninen -- PART II: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY -- 5. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy on the Discworld; Kevin Guilfoy -- 6. Plato, the Witch and the Cave: Granny Weatherwax and the Moral Problem of Paternalism; Dietrich Schotte -- 7. Equality and Difference: Just because the Disc is flat, doesn't make it a Level Playing Field for All; Ben Saunders -- PART III: ETHICS AND GOOD LIFE -- 8. Millennium Hand and Shrimp: On the Importance of Being in the Right Trouser Leg of Time; Susanne E. Foster -- 9. Categorically Not Cackling: The Will, Moral Fictions and Witchcraft; Jennifer Jill Fellows -- 10. The Care of the Reaper Man: Death, the Auditors, and the Importance of Individuality; Erica L. Neely -- 11. 'YES, SUSAN, THERE IS A HOGFATHER:' Hogfather and the Existentialism of Søren Kierkegaard; J. Keeping -- PART IV: LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS -- 12. On the Possibility of the Discworld; Martin Vacek -- 13. Pratchett's The Last Continent and the Act of Creation; Jay Ruud.
600 10 $aPratchett, Terry$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aPhilosophy in literature.
650 7 $aFICTION / Fantasy / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / General.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aHeld, Jacob M.,$d1977-$eeditor.
700 1 $aSouth, James B.,$d1960-$eeditor.
988 $a20150117
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